Veteran sports writer Jim Utter covers NASCAR for The Charlotte Observer and its racing site, ThatsRacin.com. In this space, Jim writes about all things NASCAR and other forms of racing which may also be relevant ... or not.

Wilhelm
and Hunter will be enshrined posthumously in the ceremony Monday
night at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

A
Charleston native, Hunter started with NASCAR in 1968 as the public
relations director at Darlington and then served as track president
from 1993 to 2001. He served as NASCAR's vice president of corporate
communications at the time of his death in 2010.

Hunter
played football and baseball at the University of South Carolina and
then joined The State newspaper in the 1960’s where he earned the
nickname “Fumes” for his coverage of NASCAR.